I'm afraid at this point I need to appeal to everyone's patience. I am actually feeling a bit burnt out. Most of the issues I would like to address take me into new areas and I'm procrastinating a little about jumping into the total unknown again.
that large empire stability bug. I guess I will at some point revert back to the original SoI stability.py and then add my bits back in.
making slavery look better. I want to have animations for slaves hurrying buildings and being sold. the surrender and build animations would be fine, but I need to learn how to hook them onto the events. further, it would be more proper to make the hurry and sell events custom. this would mean the Qin UP could be in the event not a hidden UU as it is now. I found an add mission tutorial. its a bit involved.
I want to add a pilgrim unit. this is another mission to add. that is how the Koreans (and Tocharians, though they have others options as well) are supposed to get Buddhism. the pilgrim would go to the holy city, do the pilgrim mission and become a missionary. I tried to think a of a cheesy, xml and python only way to make this happen, but didn't come up with anything. (btw I cannot gift units for some reason, anyone know why?) If you want to try the UHV for now, get Monasticism, then build a worker and send it to Pataliputra and WB yourself a missionary there.
the thing is, I'm quit enjoying playing the mod right now and would rather spend my time doing that. I'm still a bit amazed that I manged to make something that runs and generates fun, historic settings. Of the UHVs that are balanced and doable, I have only finished a few. I'm really quite a slow and not very good player.
@2phunkey4u: I have no idea why the Seleucid GG goal is not working for you. does the victory screen count them? (easy way to test it: go into Civ4TraitInfos.xml in the Civilizations folder, find the trait Generalship and increase the Great General occurance)
when you died as Qin, did you get defeated or collapse?
thanks again for all your interest and feedback. I'm gonna try the Parthians again I think.